iPhone apps S/D

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*Sigh*. You're a bloody cock, then :)

btw I was pleased when I saw I could wake up to Satie but when I tried it, immediately on waking I thought "this is wrong". Back to the lolbient.

i think morning mist was the best

haha ledge i thought the exact same thing re: satie

anyway this seems right: (For a start: if you share a bed, surely it's going to pick up your partner's movements too?)

i live alone so it isn't an issue u_u

forest glade man, myself

another vote for morning mist

btw - what is the deal with the calibration during the two first nights?

the FAQ even addresses that it usually doesn't pick up motion from the other side of the bed. your own body blocks it. you can run the test mode if you are so worried about false tosses n turns.

false tosses

*Chortle* ... I need to stop reading Viz.

Fucking hell, though. I'm going to download this now, I can tell. And then I'm going to quite like it, and Stet will give me endless fucking grief for changing my mind about it.

The picture on the app store shows it tucked under the sheet next to the pillow: is that what everyone is doing here? Are some people putting it under the pillow, or what?

Downloaded. I hate ILX sometimes :)

i just put it on the bed. and loop the cable over the headboard in a way that should stop it falling off, not that it ever seems in danger of doing so.

I have been dreaming a looot lately and have been tired for it. sure enough my graphs show lots of actvity and very little deep sleep. I don't know what's wrong with my brayne ;-;

it also suggests you use airplane mode if you're feart of having the phone in your bed. (lol daily mail)

I know. I'm more feart of knacking the phone, but I see they actually say "don't put it under your pillow, you tool", so hey, I won't. That said, I will be putting it on airplane mode, because I don't want to be woken up by drunken texts, eg from you.

I rarely charge my phone overnight: it can't be much of a battery-draining app, can it?

first thing I do in the morning is check zing, so no airplane mode for me

every morning is like Christmas morning when you see which bookmarked threads have been updates

i slip it under the sheet and put it on silent

i use my phone as my alarm so i have it next to me and cant put it on silent, but i have to turn off the specific email sounds because i get a ton of work emails during the night

it's running the accelerometer and screen solidly for 8 hours; it'll kill the battery dead-o

and put it on silent

Call me an idiot if you want (there's a precedent, after all) but: er, why doesn't that mute the sound from this app too? I put mine on silent, nothing makes a noise.

it's running the accelerometer and screen solidly for 8 hours; it'll kill the battery dead-o

Shit.

first thing I do in the morning is check zing

sad

it doesn't run the screen unless you move it; even then it's at lowest brightness

second thing i do is to try to find all the threads where my favorite ilxor poster cutty has posted to

ah that's some fridge door antics, that. xp

either way, GF: it says to plug it in

http://i45.tinypic.com/ndaib5.jpg

wears the titts at?

Oh, can confirm that the sleepytime thing works for double occupant beds too. Me and the missus both running our own copies, and both getting very different graphs. Trouble is, hers keeps going off before mine and waking me up when I'm still in deep sleep, gah.

i guess you'll need to break up :(

my condolences =(

jeez jim sorry to hear about your divorce

i'm surprised how different my daily graphs are so far

It's weird seeing how infrequently I dream some nights. Last night was nearly all deep sleep apart from one big hour-long spike into dreaming. Was a great dream, too.

4am-5am I might as well as have been dead. tiny little ridges, right down at the very bottom of the graph

oh yeah: I don't think it went off this morning either. When I picked it up, it had a notification box on top of it, which puts it in the background. I think that stops the sounds.

tiny little ridges, right down at the very bottom of the graph

that was me last night. just so happens cat knocked my phone on the floor. the floor slept very well.

It's weird seeing how infrequently I dream some nights

Without wanting to get into a repeat of the argument yesterday and incur Cutty's wrath again: er, meh. I'm guessing it's basing it on some quite old but widely accepted notions about muscle movement before/after REM sleep (e.g. Dement and Kleitman, 1957) but -- for instance -- there are some interesting, newer theories about at which stages dreaming happens, etc (e.g. Solms, 2000: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=84265). Gottesmann (2009) looks like it might be an interesting review of some of this stuff, if anyone gives a shit (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/articles/PMC2625318/). Then again, I've not read it, so hey.

Anyway, enough of that. Where were we? Oh aye, the app. I tried it out last night and it's actually quite neat, isn't it? It wasn't a great deal of use for me this morning, right enough, because Mrs F got up about half an hour before I needed to, so I was woken by her coming back into the bedroom and clattering about with make-up boxes and wardrobes etc: it didn't seem worth even trying to go back to sleep after that, so I just switched the alarm off. Tomorrow, though, I can have a bit of a lie-in so I'm interested to see how it goes.

I know I was being a bit of a cock about the graph etc yesterday but it is quite interesting, isn't it? I found myself sort-of waking up at various points in the night and thinking: "Wonder if this'll show up on the stats tomorrow?" and it sort-of has (though not always as "awake") ... that said, according to this I also woke the fuck up sharpish at 4.30am, which I don't remember at all. Had seven hours' decent kip, though. And didn't knock the phone off the bed/squash it/etc, so that's got to be a bonus.

i don't think the purpose of the app is to tell you when you are dreaming

it's interesting tho. always heard that "you dream x times a night, you just don't remember" when I've always felt there are some nights with tons of dreams and some nights with barely one. graphs so far seem to more or less back that up.

i don't think the purpose of the app is to tell you when you are dreaming

Yes, I absolutely agree: I think this is all a total blind alley, and I admit it's largely me who led us all up it.

graphs so far seem to more or less back that up

Hmmmm: yeh, but the graphs say so little, really (esp that can be validated) that you can pretty much read whatever you want into them/confirm your own biases and assumptions.

I think one interesting thing with the graph will be when I'm drunk: Mrs F says there are nights I've passed out and been in pretty much exactly the same position when she's eventually kicked me in the head to wake me up. Hey, that's a good excuse to get absolutely loaded: "I want to see what my sleep graph looks like" :)

If anyone's still looking for a radio app, I've just bought TuneIn Radio and it's fantastic.

It even allows backgrounding! Kidnda. If you ask it to, it opens the stream you're listening to in safari, and then you can click home and get on with other stuff while it plays in the background.

Oh, that'd be sweet. Key question: does it get BBC stations? I'm using the similarly named but different TuneIn.FM iCar Radio and for my limited needs it's pretty lovely.

Sleep Cycle update: did a really nice job of waking me up just as I was waking up this morning, if you see what I mean. So ... OK, OK, I WAS WRONG. It happens. A lot.

Got Sleep Cycle. On night 4 and it works, but I'm sure I wake up in anticipation of it waking me up. I suppose that still means it works.

It gets BBC stations (including local BBC), but they don't have backgroundable streams, annoyingly.

Got Sleep Cycle. On night 4 and it works, but I'm sure I wake up /in anticipation/ of it waking me up. I suppose that still means it works.

this happens to me all the time wrt to regular alarm clocks, except I'll usually do so 2, 3 hours before the scheduled time :{

Okay, I'm looking for a solution where I can sit down once a week, and make to do lists for each day in the coming week, and then have it sync w/ the phone over the air. Do I really need to buy an app and join some god damn GTD cult to do this? Can I seriously not do it with google and/or ical?

you can make google cal sync with the calendar app on iphone over the air...

There's a website that does exactly this but I can't remember the name at all; will search for a link

I've used Remember the Milk for years for todo's. It's a paid service though, at least if you want to use the iPhone app to sync with the web client.

PS I'm seriously fascinated with this special (and ridiculous) type of rage I feel/have observed where you're all "why the fuck won't my future tricorder do the Exact Thing I want?!?!?"

stet that would be lovely btw